“Few places… demonstrate the promise of Africa better than Cape Verde,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a landmark visit to the archipelago last year. “Some places have certain aspects that can be comparable. But no place has put it all together, with good governance, transparency, accountability, the rule of law, a democracy that is delivering for its people, lifting them out of poverty, putting them now in a category of middle-income countries in the world.”

“Walking through these islands is like giving a blind man eyes” Darwin